{"id":178517,"date":"2018-11-06T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/06\/too-lame-dont-read-tldr\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:22:00","slug":"too-lame-dont-read-tldr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/06\/too-lame-dont-read-tldr\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Lame Don&#8217;t Read (TLDR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/03\/magazine\/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html\">interminable essay on why law enforcement has consistently missed right wing violent terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They meticulously tiptoe around what is the most obvious answer, that a large proportion of their members actively support right wing racists.<\/p>\n<p>There are 4-5 stories in this report where somehow or other the authorities &#8220;mysteriously&#8221; screwed up and allowed these folks to walk away after engaging in acts that would ordinarily end up with a 10-20 year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>This happens because they actively support the actions and goals of right wing terrorists, whether as the cop on the beat, or as a prosecutor who offers administrative inefficiency as an alibi.<\/p>\n<p>If these folks were black or brown, they would be in jail or they would be pushing up daisies.<\/p>\n<p>When people of color do something even remotely close to this this, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MOVE\">they bomb their house and allow the entire block to burn down<\/a>, and when a white man murders a church full of black people, they bring him Burger King to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else see a pattern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an interminable essay on why law enforcement has consistently missed right wing violent terrorism. They meticulously tiptoe around what is the most obvious answer, that a large proportion of their members actively support right wing racists. There are 4-5 stories in this report where somehow or other the authorities &#8220;mysteriously&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,526,373],"class_list":["post-178517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}